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But here in the New World, this was a festival long before the ships from Europe arrived with their sacks of seed wheat and barley.
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The quality of the stories makes the format less than successful. Only three stories are worth reading. Worthwhile for fans of Aldiss and 50s Future Histories.
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The War Millennia -- `Out of Reach' (1957) (15 pages) 4/5 (Good): The second best story of the collection. While bombs are falling outside, the Directory of Dreamy Five enters the dreams of one of his thousands of "slugs" i.e. patients. The context is intriguing, the a Race War (perhaps derived from the Cold War) has produced so much stress and fear that large percentages of the world have gone insane or escaped from their worries by entering dreameries. Unfortunately, when the director enters Floyd Milton's dream the story loses the power evoked by the earlier scenes. The Director's patient replays and replays his love affair and marriage to a Solite. Humanoid "aliens" who appeared on Earth but didn't offer to end the violence -- instead, they saved plants, animals, and took Floyd with them. A silly time travel twist weakens the work.
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My issues with Galaxies stem from its structure. It attempts to be one complete text that presents fragments of Earth's history through countless millennia into the future. To accomplish this structure, the book is comprised of several short stories that are tied together with brief prefaces that focus on the book's historical theme.
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The end result feels more like a recital of Aldiss' version of Revelation, and the human implications associated with Aldiss' visions are left to a sort of faith in him as the all-knowing writer. In the absence of sympathy, there is no way to feel a sense of truth in Aldiss' words.
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While the writing is very good, I found it to be disjointed and a bit draggy.. I found it hard to get engaged.Published 16 months ago by Tim Mahanna
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The Australian Open presents a chance for the world's best players to get it right at the outset. Suffice it to say, though, that not everyone has his or her head in the style game. Paired with this year's opening-major fashion aces, here are the relative faults among fashions in Melbourne. They are notably fewer so, in a word, rejoice.
Caroline Wozniacki termed her first-round loss a "pretty sh*tty start to the season." That'd be a harsh way to frame her dress at this Aussie Open, but it still disappoints. What we want from Woz in Oz (and in Adidas) is a statement piece. We are so rarely seeing that anymore, maybe once every couple years. She's too much of a celeb-friending, globe-trotting fashion away from the court to not look outstanding every time she's on it.
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I'm not sure on the terminology used to describe the process of prepping a pineapple other then to say it's similar to de-corking. How do you "scoop" out the little pits on pineapple? I usually lose a lot of the meat when I use a knife which I assume is not the proper tool. Should I use a de-pitting tool or some kind?
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I don't think you can get all the meat out --> the grocery stores have cored pineapple for sale and that is definitely not the whole pineapple.
The important thing is actually not the cutting - it's dipping the pineapple in salt water before serving --> it prevents some type of adverse mouth effect.Reply With Quote LOG IN TO THANK No one has yet thanked Kerby for this post.
Jul 6th, 2006 12:56 AM #3
cut off the skin thinly (you'll be left with the eyes..)
than cut off the eyes on a diagonal, like you will be cutting spirals across the pineapple..(cut more than one eye at a time, using the V cutting motion)..its hard to explain..but i tried..heheReply With Quote LOG IN TO THANK No one has yet thanked jyeung15 for this post.
Jul 6th, 2006 02:29 AM #4
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cut off all the skin, then cut like this // // // // in a spiral shape in a V angle so you can take out the eyes too, u will lose pencil size pineapple but thats ok
then cut it into long carrot like slices and make sure to remove the core
soak in salt water for a while, usually 30mins will do, pour out and keep in fridge and just eat/make stuff with it
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Jul 6th, 2006 10:11 AM #5
Hope this picture helps...
BTW, the roasted pineapple with cinnamon is much better than salt water soaked raw pineapple. Try the pineapple at Carnaval Barzilian Grill, a Paradise for Meats Lover, their pineapple is the best!!!_______________
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I didn't know about the soak in salt water thing. I've eaten about 10 fresh pineapples this year and never noticed any problem.
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How much salt and how much water? Wouldn't it make the pineapple taste salty or less sweet?Reply With Quote LOG IN TO THANK No one has yet thanked kitty darko for this post.
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Does the salt water affect the taste of the pineapple?
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In any case I didn't find anyone saying pregnant women must not eat pineapple that hasn't been soaked in salt water, so that's a relief
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This is my new favorite use for pineapple. Makes a very thirst quenching drink.
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Wash the pineapple thoroughly, remove the stem and cut the pineapple into large pieces, rind and all. Place the pineapple chunks in a large bowl and add 8 cups of the water, the sugar, cinnamon and cloves. Cover and let stand in a warm place for 48 hours. Strain the tepache and add 4 cups of water. Or if you prefer, add 1 cups of beer (lager) and let stand an additional 12 hours, then strain and add 3 cups of water.
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Eat pineapples as soon as possible after purchasing as they don't ripen any further once harvested. Store them at room temperature only briefly and keep sliced pieces wrapped in plastic wrap in the fridge.
Cooks beware. Pineapple contains the enzyme bromelin which breaks down protein, so don't bother fussing with gelatine-based desserts using raw pineapple. It needs to be cooked first before making wobbly jellies and slinky custards.
However, it is a great meat tenderiser; simply rub the fibrous golden flesh on raw meat before cooking.
Eating Fully ripe, the piquant pulp of the pineapple is delicious for breakfast and dessert but in Asian cuisines it is used in many other ways. Half-ripe pineapples are used in Vietnamese sour soups, Malaysian curries and Thai salads.
Combine fresh pineapple pieces with chopped red capsicum, coriander leaves, finely chopped chilli, grated ginger, lime juice and brown sugar to taste. Serve with char-grilled swordfish steaks.
Wrap thinly sliced prosciutto around small chunks of ripe pineapple and serve with icy cold champagne.
Cut pineapple and lean beef into pieces and alternate them on skewers. Brush with olive oil, splash with soy and grill until tender.
Drizzle pineapple slices generously with honey, sprinkle with ground cinnamon and roast in a moderate oven for about 20 minutes or until the pineapple is soft. Sprinkle with toasted chopped macadamia nuts and serve warm with coconut ice-cream.
Freeze pineapple chunks and serve as a healthy ice-block for the kids.
Try a Vietnamese-style sour soup by stir-frying chopped green prawns with sliced green onions. Add plenty of stock, fish sauce to taste and thinly sliced pineapple. Bring to the boil and simmer for a couple of minutes before serving topped with coriander leaves.
Make a fruit salad fit for the gods by combining pineapple chunks, mango chunks, sliced pawpaw and a little sliced preserved ginger. Drizzle with a syrup made from fresh lime juice, white rum and coconut sugar._______________
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The miscarriage thing sounds like it might be a myth. I've never seen it mentioned in pregnancy books. They just say 'no deli meat, no unpasturized cheese, etc. (because of bacteria that can be harmful for the baby)
Jul 6th, 2006 03:19 PM #13
Q & A: Can pineapple cause an abortion?
Question: I have heard that pineapple can cause an abortion, is that true? and what other things that can cause abortion?..
Ans: Abortion or miscarriage is mostly a natural phenomenon of the body to abort any pregnancy that is biologically not correct. The eating of any natural thing does not cause that, at least not scientifically proved. People generally believe pineapple, gingelly seeds, raw papaya causes abortion and should not be consumed during the first three months of pregnancy.
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i am not pregnant
but i love a fresh pineapple.
i never ever soak in salt but it is always tasty and sweet. the flavour is like a punch to the mouth. but in a good way.
i like the pineapples we get here better than the ones in asia.Reply With Quote LOG IN TO THANK No one has yet thanked poorwingman for this post.
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I ate too much pineapple one time and it like blistered my mouth from all the acidity... Not to mention the brutal heartburn that followed
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Things are starting to feel pretty real, in part because of the fabulous baby shower my in-laws threw me and my sister-in-law this past weekend. But I'm not sure if it's getting more real for Kafka quite yet. We've definitely become more strict as of late with rules, like he must sit and stay while we open doors to go in and outside for walks. Then there's the things I once found cute -- like him running to the curb to poop -- that are now being altered too (we don't let him pull us off the sidewalk anymore). But I find myself wondering: will this really help when baby comes?
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Clark's health has been declining since a 2004 stroke; which forced him to retire in 2006 from hosting "New Year's Rockin' Eve"; which he created in 1972. Clark still appeared from time to time on "New Year's Rockin' Eve ; with his final appearance in 2011.
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Over the last few years, the Free Software Foundation (FSF) has tried to become more open in its operations. The largest of the efforts in this direction is probably the LibrePlanet network and annual conference. But today, the FSF announced another effort: the relaunching of its Free Software Directory, with a redesign that makes it easier for people to contribute. Although what is implemented falls short of complete openness, it at least shows the FSF is at least trying to involve supporters more.
As the news release explains, the Directory has existed for over a decade. With some 6500 applications, the Directory is a thorough but far from complete list. In the past, part of the reason for its incompleteness has been the slowness of the submission process: to add an entry to the Directory, you had to submit an email that would checked and perhaps supplemented by the FSF's staff members when they had the time.
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Skip to comments.Losing America's Livelihood
Posted on 02/04/2004 9:36:33 AM PST by ninenot
Up to 14 million jobs are at risk of being shipped overseas, two UC Berkeley economists said Wednesday in a research report.
Contra Costa Times October 30, 2003
Were trying to move everything we can offshore, HP [Hewlett-Packard] Services chief Ann Livermore told Wall Street analysts at a meeting Wednesday.
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But as the US economy has slowly shifted toward service jobs, factory jobs have been steadily lost in fact, in just the past 39 months, some 2.8 million have vanished.
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(8) Since 1999 our Government has provided more than $1,800,000,000 in financing and insurance for these foreign countries through the Overseas Private Investment Corporation, and our Governments current exposure relative to these countries through our Export-Import Bank totals some $14,800,000,000, bringing the total subsidy of these countries by the United States to over $16,500,000,000.
(9) Many of these countries are not market-oriented, and hence their participation in United States-supported international finance regimes amounts to a direct subsidy by American taxpayers in the shrimping sector of their international competitors.
There is a simple free market solution to this problem - American consumers who get aplastic anemia from chloramphenicol will not buy these shrimp anymore.
Actually we need to understand that this will accelerate.
As jobs are lost, social programs such as welfare, food stamps etc must increase to keep people at the minimum acceptable level of poverty. Fraud in social programs such as workers comp and insurance will also increase as people resort to desperate tactics to make a living.
Consequently the regulatory and tax burden of American labor will continue to go up on remaining jobs. This increased cost will cause even more jobs to be transferred overseas until either trade restrictions occur or wages go into free fall.
If wages are allowed to go into free fall ... the repercussions to the economy will be horrific. There will be disgruntled employees who don't understand. Some of these will result in shootings. Many companies will layoff people and hire new people rather than adjust their existing employee's wages down and put up with the resulting attitude problems.
We need to protect our industries now. Immigration needs to stop. Tarriffs need to go up.
Won't happen if we learn robotics. Some of the kids are learning robotics. The rest hope to get a job in Hollywood, but who really needs yet another Starship Enterprise model maker?
Or Cosmetology.
"Won't happen if we learn robotics" - RightWhale
I agree that robotics can help minimize the labor problems. However whoever has the cheapest labor to manufacture robotics, the best and cheapest programmers and the most engineering capability is going to be at an advantage.
Also if we don't maintain our manufacturing base, there will be nothing to automate. We will have to build new plants from scratch, and much of the necessary knowledge will have been transferred overseas.
Automation and robotics are two fields that should be ultra ultra high on our protected and promoted industries.
However this alone is going to cause major shifts in the economy. Major categories of workers will be displaced as automation occurs and higher and higher levels of management functions are going to be automated.
How we deal with this is going to be critical. It has the potential to aggravate class differences. Retooling the workforce to available jobs is key. Supporting them during the transition is also key but it is a cost that many of my fellow republicans are going to see as unnecessary handouts instead of supporting the economy as a whole.
Baseless assertion. Robotics is closely tied to computer programming and mechanial engineering, both of which have been outsourced.
Can we start calling tarriffs what they are, which are "taxes"?
So, you're advocating tax increases on Free Republic. I thought that was unpopular around here...
So why, again, is it perfectly OK for someone to lose their job to automation, and a horrible crime for someone to lose their job to an Indian guy?
TIMES NEWS NETWORK[ WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 28, 2004 05:18:58 PM ] MUMBAI: If you thought that the US Senate had finished with cracking down on outsourcing, think again. Things could just get worse for Indian software and BPO companies. On Friday, President George W Bush signed into law a Bill, which bars outsourcing by the US Treasury and Transport departments, though this does not apply to the whole Federal government as some reports had indicated.As for private sector manufacturing companies...see the following thread:
However, another Bill, called "Truthfulness, Responsibility and Accountability in Contracting Act of 2003" (TRAC Act), introduced in the US Senate last year, could halt outsourcing by the entire federal government, if it becomes law.
The objective of the TRAC Bill is "to ensure that the business of the federal government is conducted in the public interest and in a manner that provides for public accountability, efficient delivery of services, reasonable cost savings, and prevention of unwarranted Government expenses, and for other purposes.
The TRAC Bill refers to outsourcing as one of the components of "contracting out" which will be monitored by the General Accounting Office (GAO). The new Bill says that certifying agencies will have to be formed in each department to monitor all projects contracted out.
These agencies will have to report to the GAO that the procedures followed for outsourcing are fair and transparent. These procedures have been put in place to make outsourcing as difficult as possible.
Currently two per cent of all outsourcing projects from India are from the US government. Typically, federal projects are not offshored to India in a major way as they often fall foul of the "buy American provision that sets minimum levels for domestic content in products bought by the US government.
The Bill does not, in any way, affect outsourcing by private US companies except to the extent that it fosters a protectionist climate within the USA. Meanwhile President Bush has signed the omnibus spending Bill making it a law. The Bill is accompanied by a revised budget circular (called A-76) which will prevent outsourcing to India, or to any other country by the Treasury and Transportation departments.
A copy of the new law, which is available with The Economic Times , does not refer to India or even to outsourcing directly, but will nevertheless affect almost all developing and emerging countries including India.
The most damaging part in the new law is the following: "An activity or function of an executive agency that is converted to contractor performance under Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 may not be performed by the contractor at a location outside the United States except to the extent that such activity or function was previously performed by Federal Government employees outside the United States."
This clause will prevent any offshore outsourcing by the US federal government to any other part of the world. The law also revises a circular called A-76. The revised circular reads, "That in all public and private sector competition for more than 10 positions, a private sector offer would have to be 10% or $10 million less than the government offer to be considered."
What this means is that, if the positions of more than the 10 employees are affected, then the private sector offer would have to be 10 per cent less than the government offer. The A-76 changes have been dictated by the federal employee unions and industry associations.
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Disagree. Robotics relies heavily on software engineering and the ability to actually build something. America seems bound and determined to ensure only Indians can do that.
Now, inventing new kinds of ways to sue each other might be our path to salvation. :~/
Several reasons...
Both cause severe dislocations in the economy. But losing to the Indian is far worse, because it's not just the manufacturing you lose. You lose all associated jobs and knowledge. And eventually it won't even be a US firm that is producing.
It is well documented that competitors tend to sprout up in or near the location of the original manufacturer. Usually from former employees who recognize an unserved market or untapped efficiencies. This will happen in foreign lands as well. So the US companies will not hold on to their products once they are placed overseas.
Now there's a great question!
Fact is, though, a job lost to automation is still being done in this country, and it would at least be an American who programs the automation, who maintains the equipment, who transports the finished product, etc.
Not so for a job overseas.
But all you folks lamenting the loss of jobs: Do you look at the labels in your clothes and in your shoes, and only buy those made in THIS country?
Do you drive only American cars?
If not, you can point the finger at yourselves.
So, you're advocating tax increases on Free Republic.
I could support tariffs IF every dollar of tariff income to the government was offset by a dollar decrease in income taxes.
Industrial employment is dropping WORLDWIDE (in Brazil, Mexico and most of Asia) due to higher worker productivity and automation. This is a fact of life that aint gonna change for you LUDDITES!
Fuzzy logic caught on in Japan and China. So did cold fusion.
Robotics is 95% programming. Our only competition in programming is India. In spite of some Japanese robots that got high visibility press, America is about a light year ahead of everybody else in robotics, and we ought to widen the lead.
It's called competition.
In a free market, the job goes to the lowest bidder.
Unless you're a union thug.
Robots are cheap, the main ingredient is mental. This is something our post industrial cottage industry can do very well. There might not be any mass manufacture of robots. Each robot would be custom, even if the chassis is multipurpose.
We are also light years ahead in software technology. I've seen firsthand the crap that passes for software from India. It dosen't make any difference. India is the Walmart of software, including that 95% portion of robotics. People want "cheap", not quality. You would be making a big mistake to place your bets in robotics. It is no different than the type of software I do. (Embedded) I check out the job ads regularly in all disciplines involving software. The jobs aren't there. They aren't going to be there.
Those who attend engineering school now are in for a shock when they discover that they will all be competing for a total of 150 in the entire Nation.
Have a nice dream.
The nature of work is changing, and the idea of a job may be something also passing into history. Jobs were created with the American industrial revolution. The revolution is over, and jobs of that kind are nearly over. So what now?
Or a government thug.
Or an American engineer, generally not a member of a union.
The basic problem you are overlooking is that the outsourcing bypasses labor laws that are tightly coupled to the standard of living that is commonplace in the US. It is simply impossible to be price competitive when the employment rate in India is below what someone makes at the minimum wage here in the US. Do you honestly expect college-trained engineers with thirty years of experience to work below the minimum wage? Perhaps you expect us to reach the ripe age of 54, then retrain in what? Making picture frames?
Under these circumstances, people in this country are out of their minds if they attend engineering school now. This will place the US in the position of obtaining all high tech artifacts from third world suppliers, including the weapon systems that are supposed to make this Nation independent. Do you honestly think India and China are going to supply this Nation with first-line systems, or will they keep those for their own military? It won't take long before this Nation is a third world consumer.
BTW, establishing global independence of this nature is exactly how global governance can and will come to fruition.
Finally, I expect there is nothing about your job that makes you immune to outsourcing, unless you are a plumber or something. We all can't be plumbers. Others on this thread have pointed out that if you don't get upset when your fellow citizens' jobs are outsourced, there is nothing to stop yours from becoming history either. It boils down to what the Jews said following WWII: They came for the gypsies, but I wasn't a gypsy, so I didn't care. They came for the infirm, but I didn't care because I wasn't infirm. They came for the outspoken, but I didn't care because I was not outspoken. They came for the intellectuals, but I didn't care because I wasn't an intellectual. When they came for me, there was nobody left to care.
The future is the way they live in Mexico, or Peru, or Pakistan. Get used to the idea of living in a third world country. The decision has been made to place you there. You seem to accept the idea, because you sure do accept the implementation.
The solution: Say "To hell with the rest of the world". Keep our manufacturing and the jobs in this country, and let the others build their Nations they same way we built ours: By building our own Nation.
When a company places a factory in a third world country, let the products be sold in that country at price appropriate for that country. Prohibit those products from being imported for use here until that local standard of living matches our own. The world's economy really can be built up without destroying own own.
Don't expect a repeat or a continuation of the American Industrial Revolution. That was a one time event and it isn't coming back. Vigorous space development could be the replacement, but it's not being set up correctly.
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Don't expect commercial real estate in Central Florida and the rest of the country to attract foreign investors as much as last year, a new report projected.
Foreign investment in the U.S. was down during the first quarter, although Florida improved its position from being the fourth-ranked state for cross-border investment last year to becoming the third-ranked state at the beginning of this year, according to a report released this week by CBRE. It trailed New York and California.
In Central Florida, Canadians have been led the cross-border acquisitions in part because their home country caps rent growth for apartments.
"We're still seeing solid interest from...


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Salma Hayek's Daughter Valentina: Mom is Her Hero!
About this photo set: Salma Hayek makes a stylish arrival to LAX Airport to catch a departing flight out of town on Tuesday (November 12) in Los Angeles. The 47-year-old actress hit… Read More Here
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